The Iphigenia Quartet. Caroline Bird

Watch This Space Festival); Flashes (Young Vic); Mass Observation (Almeida Theatre); Ant Street and Brimstone and Treacle (Arcola Theatre); Gambling (Soho Theatre); The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC); Quimeras (Sadlers Wells, Edinburgh International Festival); Plasticine (Southwark Playhouse) and Under Milk Wood (Northampton Theatre Royal).

      Sound and performance installation credits include: Yes, These Eyes Are The Windows and Have Your Circumstances Changed (ArtAngel).

      Television credits include: Live from Television Centre: Brainstorm (BBC4, iPlayer) and UNSA Astro-science Challenge (Unlimited Theatre, online episodes).

      Radio credits include: 12 Years, The Meet Cute and Duchamps Urinal (BBC Radio 4).

      More info at: www.elenapena.co.uk

       JOSHUA PHARO – LIGHTING DESIGNER

      Joshua works across theatre, dance, opera, music, film & art installation.

      Recent credits include: La Favorite (Stratford East); Carmen (UK Tour, OperaUpClose); The Rolling Stone (Orange Tree Theatre); In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Gate Theatre); Medea (Gate Theatre); Glass Menagerie (Nuffield Theatre) as Video Designer; The Merchant of Venice, Wuthering Heights, Consensual (Ambassadors Theatre); The Crocodile (Manchester International Festival); One Arm (Southwark Playhouse); The Trial Parallel (Young Vic); Amadis de Gaulle (Bloomsbury Theatre); Beckett Season (Old Red Lion); The Deluge (UK Tour, Lila Dance); Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); A Streetcar Named Desire Parallel (Young Vic); Pioneer (UK Tour, Curious Directive); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep (Gate Theatre); Thumbelina (UK Tour, Dancing Brick) and No Place To Go (Gate Theatre).

      More info at: www.joshuapharo.com

       LULU RACZKA – PLAYWRIGHT (CLYTEMNESTRA)

      Lulu Raczka is an award-winning young playwright. She is a Company Director of Barrel Organ Theatre, who she worked with on her play NOTHING, which has toured the UK. Barrel Organ’s next piece Some People Talk About Violence was performed at the Edinburgh Festival 2015, and went on to be performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Warwick Arts Centre and Camden People’s Theatre throughout winter. Lulu has also had her work performed at the Sheffield Crucible, and the Soho Theatre. She is currently working on a piece for the Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival.

       SARAH READMAN – PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN

      As Lighting Designer: Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); The Owls Are Not What They Seem (Theatre Delicatessen); Phenomena (Albany Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre); The Liberation of Colette Simple (Jackson’s Lane); The Earning of Innocence (Yard Theatre); Ghostland Cinema and Awful Things Can Happen At Any Time (Camden People’s Theatre and BE Festival); STARRING JAMES FRANCO and Right Honourable Gentlemen (Camden People’s Theatre, Theatre Delicatessen, Brakke Gronde in Amsterdam and National Theatre Kosovo); Tomorrow (UK tour, Jasmin Vardimon Company); Pages From The Book Of… (Theatre Astorka in Slovakia, Moscow Art Theatre and Gardzienice in Poland).

      As Co-Designer with Joshua Pharo: JOAN (Derby Theatre and UK tour); Shelter Me (Theatre Delicatessen) and Werter (Arcola Theatre).

      As Associate Lighting Designer: The Red Chair, Red Ladies and An Anatomie in Four Quarters (UK tour, Clod Ensemble); Stilled (Wellcome Collection); I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me Of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole (Gate Theatre); Usagi Yojimbo (Southwark Playhouse); Pioneer (UK tour, Curious Directive).

      More info at: http://sarahreadman.com

       JENNIFER TANG – DIRECTOR (CLYTEMNESTRA)

      Jennifer is an award-winning UK and International stage director and theatre-maker. She has recently returned from Sweden, where she directed the Scandinavian premieres of two Nick Payne plays to critical acclaim, consequently winning the Scenokonstguidens award for Arets Karthasis 2015.

      As Director: Constellations, One Day When We Were Young (Gothenburg English Studio Theatre); Listening To Hackney (Chatsworth Palace); Fault, Malteaser Falcon (Brixton Library); For The Record (The Lab, Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Blow Out, Feathers, The Forum (Etcetera Theatre); Chasing Beckett (The London Theatre); Neil Diamond Saved My Life (Riverside Studios); Feathers (Bike Shed Theatre); Shelter, Paper Queen (National tour and Bush Theatre) and Crave (Young Vic).

      As Associate/Assistant Director: Weaklings (National Tour, Chris Goode & Co); The Edge Of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre); MADMAN (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Solid Air (The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth); Inside Wagner’s Head (Royal Opera House and Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Magic Flute (Ryedale Festival, The Arcola); #AIWW: The arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre); The Owl and The Pussycat (ROH2, Royal Opera House); There is a War, The Good Soul of Szechuan (Watford Palace Theatre); Phaedra’s Love (Arcola Theatre); Rodelina (Iford Arts) and Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic).

       This role is supported by Fenton Arts Trust, supporting emerging talent at the Gate.

       CHRIS THORPE – PLAYWRIGHT (CHORUS)

      Chris was a founder member of Unlimited Theatre and still works and tours with the company. He is also an Artistic Associate of live art company Third Angel. He has worked with, among others, Forest Fringe, Slung Low, Chris Goode, RashDash, Belarus Free Theatre and Portuguese experimental company mala voadora – his fourth piece for the company, Your Best Guess opened in Lisbon in 2015. He also plays guitar in Lucy Ellinson’s #TORYCORE and works with the National Student Drama Festival.

      Chris is an Associate at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His play for the Exchange, There Has Possibly Been An Incident was selected by Simon Stephens for the Stuckemarkt in Berlin, 2014. It has been produced in Denmark and Sweden, on German radio, and elsewhere.

      He has an ongoing collaboration with director Rachel Chavkin from New York’s TEAM. Their piece Confirmation, is currently touring internationally and they are developing their next. His other main collaborator is poet Hannah Jane Walker with whom he made The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely.

      Currently, Chris is touring Confirmation and Unlimited’s Am I Dead Yet? He is writing a version of Beowulf for the Unicorn Theatre, and a new piece Victory Condition for the Royal Court. He is also working on Truck for the Royal Exchange with Sam Pritchard.

      Chris’s work is published by Oberon Books. His work with mala voadora is published in English and Portuguese.

       CÉCILE TRÉMOLIÈRES – DESIGNER

      Born in Paris, Cécile trained in Wimbledon College of Art, graduating with a first class degree in June 2013. Cécile was a Finalist of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2013, awarded the Royal Opera House Linbury bursary (2015) and nominated Best Set Designer by the Off West End Theatre awards 2014. She is also a winner of the Ideastap graduate award 2014.

      Cécile’s work has been exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial 2015, and at the V&A exhibition Make/Believe: UK Design for Performance 2011-2015.

      Credits include: My People (Theatr Clwyd); Impermanent Theatre (Impermanence Dance Theatre tour UK); Invisible Treasure (Oval House); Piranha Heights (Old Red Lion); The Mikvah Project (The Yard); Harajuku Girls (Finborough Theatre) and Madame Butterfly (Arcola Theatre).

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